Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approach

In this paper, the problem of using a morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract nouns and other lexico-grammatical categories of the Russian language was studied. The experimental data were obtained as part of the work on compiling an electronic semantic dictionary of Russian abstr...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yu.A. Volskaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kazan Federal University 2021-02-01
Series:Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
Subjects:
Online Access:https://kpfu.ru/uz-eng-hum-2021-1-11.html
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1850285299546980352
author Yu.A. Volskaya
author_facet Yu.A. Volskaya
author_sort Yu.A. Volskaya
collection DOAJ
description In this paper, the problem of using a morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract nouns and other lexico-grammatical categories of the Russian language was studied. The experimental data were obtained as part of the work on compiling an electronic semantic dictionary of Russian abstract nouns with the help of the methodology used to create a similar dictionary for the English language. To date, the dictionary has had 1000 entries, each provided with the abstractness/concreteness index number. During the study, the nouns with the highest degree of abstractness (from 3.5 to 5) were selected. Based on the Large Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by S.A. Kuznetsov and the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by D.N. Ushakov, the plural forms of these nouns and their usage were analyzed. It was revealed that the plural forms of the nouns under consideration can be used in at least one meaning. It was also discovered that the morphological criterion for distinguishing between the lexico-grammatical categories of concreteness/abstractness is not stable and, therefore, turns out to be inapplicable to a number of words.
format Article
id doaj-art-3864fbbb115a4b868fd6b389fd78765e
institution OA Journals
issn 2541-7738
2500-2171
language English
publishDate 2021-02-01
publisher Kazan Federal University
record_format Article
series Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
spelling doaj-art-3864fbbb115a4b868fd6b389fd78765e2025-08-20T01:47:21ZengKazan Federal UniversityУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки2541-77382500-21712021-02-01163111912910.26907/2541-7738.2021.1.119-129Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approachYu.A. Volskaya0Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008 RussiaIn this paper, the problem of using a morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract nouns and other lexico-grammatical categories of the Russian language was studied. The experimental data were obtained as part of the work on compiling an electronic semantic dictionary of Russian abstract nouns with the help of the methodology used to create a similar dictionary for the English language. To date, the dictionary has had 1000 entries, each provided with the abstractness/concreteness index number. During the study, the nouns with the highest degree of abstractness (from 3.5 to 5) were selected. Based on the Large Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by S.A. Kuznetsov and the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by D.N. Ushakov, the plural forms of these nouns and their usage were analyzed. It was revealed that the plural forms of the nouns under consideration can be used in at least one meaning. It was also discovered that the morphological criterion for distinguishing between the lexico-grammatical categories of concreteness/abstractness is not stable and, therefore, turns out to be inapplicable to a number of words.https://kpfu.ru/uz-eng-hum-2021-1-11.htmlabstract vocabularynounsmorphological criteriondatabasesemantic dictionary
spellingShingle Yu.A. Volskaya
Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approach
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
abstract vocabulary
nouns
morphological criterion
database
semantic dictionary
title Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approach
title_full Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approach
title_fullStr Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approach
title_full_unstemmed Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approach
title_short Morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns: An experimental approach
title_sort morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns an experimental approach
topic abstract vocabulary
nouns
morphological criterion
database
semantic dictionary
url https://kpfu.ru/uz-eng-hum-2021-1-11.html
work_keys_str_mv AT yuavolskaya morphologicalcriterionfordistinguishingbetweenabstractandconcretenounsanexperimentalapproach